Christie: Vance ‘will be remembered’ for backing controversial Ramaswamy ad

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday said Vice President Vance “will be remembered” for backing former Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s controversial ad featuring Gov.-elect Amy Acton’s (D) mother.

“JD Vance will be remembered for standing behind Vivek and his ad,” Christie wrote on social media Wednesday. “A man who wrote a book about Catholicism. It’s a disgrace.”

Christie attached to the post his broader analysis on the Ohio race’s outcome when asked by ABC’s David Muir on Tuesday night.

“Well look, you not only have to question the judgment of a man who would take a woman, an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in, in a parking lot of a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera and make that a TV ad in a gubernatorial race,” he said.

Christie said the “real problem going forward” was Vance standing up for Ramaswamy “100 percent … not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that ad.”

“And Vivek Ramaswamy will be forgotten. He is going to be sent to the dustbin of history,” the New Jersey Republican added before giving his evaluation on Vance and what he thinks the vice president will be remembered for.

Acton won 52.31 percent of the vote, according to The Hill’s election partner Decision Desk HQ as of 3:04 p.m. EST on Wednesday. Ramaswamy received 44.4 percent of the vote.

She will become Ohio’s first Democrat elected to be governor in roughly 15 years, and the first woman elected as governor in Buckeye State history. She served in Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R) administration as the director of the Ohio Department of Health. DeWine will leave office, as he is term limited.

Vance slammed Republicans last month who criticized Ramaswamy’s ad, which featured Acton’s mother accusing her daughter of being a “liar” and saying Acton “needs help.”

The vice president said Ramaswamy ran an ad that “calls it out like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar,” and urged voters to focus on “the substance and focus on the facts.”

“I have to admit that I’m a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America,” Vance said at a fraud task force press conference.

President Trump also defended the ad , telling Ramaswamy that he “should keep it up.”

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings said last month that Vance could have “ignored” the ad and said that not all of Ramaswamy’s surrogates needed to agree with the campaign’s decisionmaking.

“This issue of whining, I took some issue with that today, because I don’t see people whining about this, I think they are warning about this,” he added.